Intel slows chip development in India

IT'S UNLIKELY that there will be any chip or chipset development at Intel India, in the near future, a report in the Times of India said.

It claims that Intel has around 3,000 employees in India but that number will be cut to 2,000. The same report also claims staff who worked on the ill-fated "Whitefield" have defected to AMD.

We asked Intel about chip development ceasing in India earlier this week. A representative said that such a situation was unlikely*.

Whitefield is one of the burgeoning hi-tech development areas in Bangalore. Intel has three sites in the city - AMD has several offices based there too.

* APOLOGIES to Intel. This should always have read "unlikely" not "likely". What a difference an "un" makes.

L'INQ
Times of India

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